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episode 6: Valeria Facchin: Dealing with failure, navigating the art world and the intersection of arts and technology.
Valeria Facchin is the Project Manager & Assistant Curator ay Fiorucci Art Trust, as well as the co-founder of W21, an on-going participatory art project focusing on post-feminism and intersectional practice in art, science, culture, and technology.
She is a curator and researcher specialised in digital art and XR. With a focus on visual studies, her work explores the relationship between bodies, technologies and future ecosystems. She holds an MA in History of Art from Ca' Foscari University, and an MA in Curatorial Museum studies from The Courtauld Institute of Art. She is currently pursuing a specialization in Virtual Reality, Goldsmith University.
She is currently working as Assistant Curator to Milovan Farronato at Fiorucci Art Trust, London. As part of the Fiorucci Art Trust team, she is collaborating with institutions such as Serpentine Galleries. Before joining the Fiorucci Art Trust she held curatorial positions, among the others, at the Science Museum and Somerset House, London, and 58. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia.
Valeria is part of NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and CAS, Computer Arts Society, and she served as a young trustee of Science Gallery Venice since its inception. She usually speaks in panels and conferences about the use and impact of digital art in contemporary art practice. She is currently developing, as part of Anthropocene Campus – an initiative by HKW and Max Planck Institute in partnership with Ca’ Foscari University – a VR art installation, which will take place during the 17th Esposizione Internazionale d’Architettura La Biennale di Venezia.
Together with Delanie Linden and Indrani Saha, PhD students from MIT, she founded W21, an on-going participatory art project focusing on post-feminism and intersectional practice in art, science, culture, and technology. In 2021, W21 was selected by the European Commission for innovation in the arts & tech.
Valeria has independently curated an array of exhibitions and collaborated, amongst others, with artists including Helen Cammock, Joana Escoval, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Lubaina Himid, Marysia Lewandowska, Kathy Prendergast, and Lucy Skaer.
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